Max Weinhold
John Maximilian "Max" Weinhold ( born April 30, 1982 in Munich) is a German hockey goalie.
Max Weinhold and his brother Philip accompanied her father to the days of childhood Munich Sports Club, where his father played hockey. Both started then itself at the Munich SC with the sport of hockey. 2003 and 2006 Max Weinhold was involved in the winning of the German indoor champion title in 2004 won the European Cup in Munich also in the hall. About the Limburger HC and Black - White Cologne Weinhold came to his present club Rot-Weiss Cologne, with whom he was outdoors German champion in 2009 and 2010. In the hall he was successful with the people of Cologne in 2009 and 2012.
Weinhold made his debut in 2003 in the German national hockey team. Weinhold played both when winning the European Indoor Championships in 2006 and profit of the World Indoor Championships 2007 in the German team. Outdoors he was when winning the FIH Champions Trophy 2007 here. For the Olympic Games in Beijing Weinhold was nominated as the only German goalkeeper. Christian Schulte traveled as a substitute in the event that Weinhold should be seriously injured. In these summer games Weinhold came in 2008 with the German team the finals, where Weinhold held three seven meters in the penalty shoot the semi-finals, including the crucial seven-meter Dutchman Taeke Taekema. In the final against Spain, the German team won 1-0 and became Olympic champion.
After the Olympic victory Weinhold was involved in further successes of the German national hockey team: It was 2009 European Cup runners-up England and 2010 in India World Cup runners-up behind Australia. At the European Championships 2011 in Mönchengladbach he won with the German team in the final against the Netherlands. In 2012 he repeated his triumph of Beijing and won the team gold medal at the Olympic Games in London.
Max Weinhold has completed 99 international matches, including 5 in the hall. (As of October 19, 2012 ) At a height of 1.96 m his competition weight is 99 kg.